Characters

Our Mutual Friend

Published 1864–1865

Scene: London and Neighboring Towns

Time: 1860

Mr. Harmon A rich dust collector

Mr. Boffin Foreman of the dust business and
heir to the Harmon fortune

Known as "The Golden Dustman"

Mrs. Boffin His wife

John Harmon Mr. Harmon's son

Later Mr. Boffin's secretary, under the name of
"John Rokesmith"

Mr. Veneering A rich man with social and political
ambitions

Mr. Wilfer A clerk in Mr. Veneering's office

Bella His daughter

Silas Wegg A one-legged ballad seller

"Rogue" Riderhood A riverman of bad reputation

Later a lock tender

Hexam A riverman

Charley His son

Lizzie His daughter

"Jenny Wren" A crippled friend of Lizzie's, known
as "The Dolls' Dressmaker"

Eugene Wrayburn A reckless young lawyer

Headstone A schoolmaster

Mr. Venus A dismal young man with a dismal trade—the
stringing together of human skeletons on wires